How long does it take to read Why We Took the Car?
Wolfgang Herrndorf
Why We Took the Car by Wolfgang Herrndorf takes about 4 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 33 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2010. 248 pages, about 68,200 words. Written for children.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Mike Klingenberg is a troubled fourteen-year-old from a dysfunctional family in Berlin who thinks of himself as boring, so when a Russian juvenile delinquent called Tschick begins to pay attention to him and include Mike in his criminal activities, he is excited--until those activities lead to disaster on the autobahn. Mike, a troubled 14-year-old from a dysfunctional family in Berlin, finds friendship when a Russian juvenile delinquent called Tschick begins to pay attention to and include Mike in his criminal activities. The plot contains profanity and violence.
Subjects: Immigrants, Fiction, Russians, Automobile theft, Juvenile delinquents, Self-esteem
